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Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: He was out of her league. She was out of her depth. When Miranda, the Miss Lonely Hearts of Shepherd’s Bush, suddenly finds herself romanced by a tall, dark and deadly spy, she finds her life turned upside down. Could it have anything to do with the book she innocently took from the library, a book with a conspiracy theory about ‘love’ so devastating that every other copy has been destroyed by…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 798 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 550) Аннотация: St Petersburg 1917. The capital of the glittering Empire of the Tsars and a city on the brink of revolution where the jackals of the Secret Police intrigue for their own survival as their aristocratic masters indulge in one last, desperate round of hedonism. For Sandro Ruzsky, Chief Investigator of the city police, even this decaying world provides the opportunity for a new beginning. Banished to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For Mort however, it is about to become one of the tools of his trade. From henceforth, Death is no longer going to be the end, merely the means to an end. He has received an offer he can’t refuse. As Death’s apprentice he’ll have free board, use of the company horse and being dead isn’t compulsory. It’s the dream job until he discovers that it can be a killer on his love life…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint, and through him comes to realise that to deny love, with all its passions and risks, is to deny life itself.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They'd stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project — well, Liz thought it exciting — buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial College, and now couldn't sell their old house. Here they were, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then Marcus…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing. The omens are not auspicious for the new incumbent, for whom ascending this…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine — encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage... not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it will cripple U.S.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 977 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 389) Аннотация: Bruce Delamitri makes cool films about killers. Films in which people die to rock and roll sound-tracks. Meanwhile, psychotic, unbalanced Wayne and Scout are actual killers. On Oscar night, as Bruce becomes King of Hollywood, Wayne and Scout go on a murderous rampage and fact is about to confront fiction.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down, because she needs a hand with her new job. Her task? Protecting the Vice President of the United States from someone threatening to kill him. And so Reacher, with nothing but his toothbrush and the clothes he stands up in, enters a very exclusive club at the very…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 824 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 359) Аннотация: Just as bogus doctors are occasionally discovered in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a bogus celebrity; winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in Hello! in someone else's house, and ultimately making a fool of the entire mad, shallow celebrity merry-go-round.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: When Grosjean`s estranged daughter Mado returns to Le Devin, a tiny island caught like a crab in the seas of northern France, she brings with her an air of energy and change that ruffles the crusty local fisherman. More menacing is the Brismand, whose ruthless interests threaten the survival of Les Salants, the community to which Mado belongs.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: «From a celebrity performer, bestselling author of «Popcorn» and «Inconceivable», a stunning satire on the modern obsession with fame. One house. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones. Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, House Arrest.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «This week the first pet passports came into effect. Around the country dogs have been hopping into photo booths and trying to look as relaxed as possible, which is not easy when you know you're not allowed on the chair». Gathered here are the best of John O'Farrell's newspaper columns for «The Guardian» and «The Independent», which saw him win the coveted Best Columnist of the Year Award at the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the cradle of mankind, is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves, stunning landscapes, and a vibrant cultural tradition. It also provides plenty to worry a traveller like Bill Bryson, fixated as he…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 571) Аннотация: Jack Reacher is adrift in the heat of a Texan summer, hoping to hitch a ride. Carmen is the beautiful, young, rich woman who picks him up. Carmen and her little girl are in trouble. At Carmen's ranch in Echo County, the group encounter hostility, Can Reacher rescue this lady in distress.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 622) Аннотация: When a scientist is found brutally murdered, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is asked to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. Realising it must be the work of the Illuminati — an ancient secret brotherhood sworn against Catholicism — the race is on to prevent a tragedy.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And then, when he feels like it, he crosses the river and goes back to his unsuspecting wife and children. For Michael is living a double life — he escapes from the exhausting misery of babies by telling his wife he has to work through…